The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-05-06
GREAT RAILROAD SCHEME
OF Interest to west Observation-Disclosures

GREAT RAILROAD SCHEME
OF Interest to West Observation-Disclosures
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Tho certificate Of Incorporation Of the
Baltimore 4 Western Railway Company
was Deposited In the State executive de-.
partment at Annapolis last week, as has
been stated. Henry g. Davis, s. B. FL.
kins and others, Of the West Virginia
Central Railway Company, are among the
ineorpofssors. One OF these gentlemen
yesterday gave come important statements
concerning this railway, which 1t Is pro.
prosed to build from Cumberland to Fla.
gcrstown, connecting there with the West.
ern Maryland Road to Baltimore. He
says:
"The distance from Cumberland 10 Bal.
ttnore by the new road, via the Western
Maryland, will DO 1853 miles, 1 miles less
than by the Baltimore < Ohio Railrond.
Thia line will give Cumberland another
outlet 10 tidewater, and, in connection
with tho extension Of the West Virginia
Central to Charleston, the capital Of Weut
Virginia. will give Baltimore another line
to the West. The distance from Balti.
more by the projected line and lila connec-
!ions In West Virginia to Point Pleasant,
on tho Ohio river, Is only 20 miles longer
than the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad to
parkersburY. The country north Of the
Potomac Ia richer than the country south,
and can maintain a railroad better from
local business alone. There 10 Il large
district Of country In Pennsylvania,
nearly seventy.tive miles long and fifty
milea broad, stretching from the diary.
land line north, and which has no other
railroad communication, that will DO
tributary 10 this new line. The local bust.
ness, considering the iron ore, lumber and
agricultural products, will pay the interest
on the Investment, not to speak Of the
through business. By this limo Baltimore
will reach tho virgin coal, iron and tim.
Der districts Of West Virginia.. which are
almost inexhaustible. AT Charleston it
will connect with the Newport News &
Mieslssippi Valley system, which will
reach tho Southern and Southwestern
States. This we thinkan important thing
for Baltimore. At Point Pleasant, on the
Ohio river, It will connect with several
roads, reaching Chicago. st. Louis, Colum.
bus and Cincinnati. While Boston has
twelve prominent railroads csn!esiag
there, St. Louis fifteen, and Chicago
eighteen or nineteen, Baltimore, with her
population OF about half a million, her
wealth and great natural facilities, has but
two. "
"An accurate survey Of this new line
has been made, and the maximum grade
lB found TO be but eighty feet to tho mile.
There will DO only two tunnels, OF eleven
hundred feet each. From Hancock to
Aagefstown the line is easily constructed,
running through q rich agricultural coun-
try. At Hagarstown tho line will also
connect with the Cumberland Valley,
which will give Cumberland and the coal
and lumber from Weet Virginia al cutie:
to Philadelphia and New York over a
competing line thirty.lve to forty miles
nearer than by Huntington, Pa, or Balti.
more. Only $1,000 600 Of capital would
be required to build and equip The road,
and jointly with the parties who build The
Piedmont 4 Cumberland road. Western
and New York capitalize have expressed
their willingness to find the funds. The
movement is entirely independent Of the
canal. The route, found by g careful
survey, is 40 much better than expected
that tho interested parties feel they
would DO losing time and money to try 10
acquire tho canal. Indeed, we claim our
building would not hurt the canal.
"The attitude OF the Baltimore c Ohio
will be that otdecided hostility !; naturally
80, as it has been lite TRADITIONAL policy for
forty years to oppose every approach to
Baltimore, or any railroad even entering
Maryland, which it could not control. But
Ito opposition will avail nothing; the new
line lies north Of tbs Potomac river and
TOO far and too difficult Tor it to tear M
the tracks, as in the csse Of the Piedmont
4 Cumberland Company. Besides, it is
believed by capitalists who want to in
veat money in railroads in Maryland that
the State OF Maryland and the courts will
not longer permit the Baltimore 4 Ohio
to carry on its oppoaition to nav lines by
force ofyiolence. No this policy isunwofthy
Of :the Baltimore '&~6hfo, aud the State.
Then, again, Baltimore and hesitate Of Ma.
ry!Gnd are vitality Interested in having an.
other outletto the West and Sou.hwcot,,
and will lair encourage 1t. Thecity owns
the Western Maryland road the building
OF the gap covered by the Baltimore &
Western will make it 8 paying institution,
as 1t will get a large ahsre Of tho freight
coming from the Piedmont Cumberland
road and the central portion OF West Vir-
ginia, besides q iair share Of the through
business from the West. 1t will bs seen
by looking at the map that in order to give
Baltimore this new line to the West and
Southwest, it is only necessary to build
the gapa between Hagerstown and Cum
beriaud and the end of the West Virginia
Central track, now in Tucker county, W.
W., and Charleston, W.. Va, and this
will be done at an early day, when Bslti-
more and the State will enjoy another
Wcetern and Southwestern outlet.
THE cost OF the new line will be about
one.fourth the cost of the Baltimore &
Ohio or and Pennsylvania railroad to the
Ohoi river. The Baltimore 4 Western
Company, however, and the parties inter
ested in II, do not wish to, mol do they be-
lleye building their line will, ipiura the
Baltimore & Ohio. but they know it will
benefit Baltimore, and be q good paying
enterprise. They make no war upon any
competing line, and have none but the
best Of feelings for all railroads md par
ties Interested in them. Thoy believe
that there will be enough business for
both the Baltimore x Ohio and their COM
pany ; indeed for even another line, con-
what other cities not 80 large MS
Baltimore, nor go favorably located, have
the way OF railroad connections"
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